According to the Curriculum Guidelines for Basic Education published by the Hong Kong Curriculum Development Council in 2002, the purpose of basic education in Hong Kong at present is to improve students' reflective advantages and let them give full play to their strengths. The basic education in Hong Kong has always been criticized as overemphasizing recitation (the so-called "cramming education"), which makes students unable to grasp the needs and changes of society in today's rapidly changing information society, thus making the employed talents in Hong Kong less competitive. Therefore, the Education and Manpower Bureau hopes to fundamentally improve the quality of students through curriculum reform.

The policies formulated by EMB emphasize students' ability to "learn to learn". In order to develop students' learning ability, the government put forward two concepts of "nine common abilities" and "four key points" in the above curriculum guidelines. Cooperation ability

Communication ability

creativity

Critical thinking ability

Ability to use information technology

service ability

problem-solving ability

Self management ability

Learning ability, moral education and civic education

Learn from reading.

monographic study

Interactive learning with information technology